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Iranians awaiting for result of Elections...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iranians are awaiting the results of Friday elections for parliament and a body which is tasked with appointing the Leader and monitoring his performance as vote counting began. Interior Ministry said on Saturday around 60 percent of voters cast ballots in the elections after voting hours were extended five times for a total of six extra hours to allow millions of latecomers to participate. At least 33 million out of 55 million eligible voters took part in polls for the parliament...
130,000 refugees ‘vanished’ in Germany: Berlin...
( Germany )
Berlin:On Friday, the German government said in a parliamentary document that about 13 percent of the 1.1 million refugees registered last year did not show up at reception centers “to which they had been directed.” The written document was in response to a question posed by a Left Party lawmaker the previous day. The document says that some refugees may have returned to their home countries, travelled to a third nation or “gone underground.” It added that repeated registrations...
50 Saudi troops killed in missile attack by Yemeni forces....
( Yemen )
Sana:While defending,Yemeni forces in a ballistic missile killed at least 50 Saudi troops in the country’s northern Jawf province. The Yemeni army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, targeted a Saudi military installation in Beir al-Maraziq region with a Qaher 1 ballistic missile in the early hours of Wednesday, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah news website added that a large number of Saudi troopers have also sustained injuries in...
Defeat Enemies of Islam with the tool of Unity & Tolern...
( Egypt )
Cairo:Prominent Egyptian Cleric & Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Ahmad al Tayyeb once again banned killing of Muslims from any denomination calling all to return to the original spirit of Islam, affection, tolerance and prevention of extremism, reported (TNA). Sheikh cleric warned against disagreements between Muslim scholars and also any prejudice or extremism regarding a certain denomination. He also referred to measures taken to impose a certain denomination to others and added,” This will...
UN encouraging terrorists, their backers:Syria...
( Syria )
Damascus:Syria’s Foreign and Expatriates Ministry forwarded separate letters to the world body’s Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council on Monday, the official SANA news agency reported. The ministry pointed to terrorist bombing by Daesh that targeted Damascus suburbs and a residential neighborhood in Homs last Sunday, respectively killing 83 and 46 civilians and injuring hundreds. The ministry said that the Security Council’s continuing silence and its failure to condemn...
Promotion of Islam counters Takfirism:Ayatollah Khamenei in ...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says promotion of Islam will act as a countermeasure to divisive plots by Takfiri groups. Ayatollah Khamenei made the remarks in a meeting with visiting Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev in Tehran on Tuesday. Also present at the meeting was Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. “Promoting Islamic teachings and observing religious manifestations and rites will encourage public support [for measures designed] to counter threats,”...
Daesh plants explosives in copies of Holy Qur’an...
( Syria )
Damascus:As the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group is losing ground both in Syria and Iraq, it is now resorting to more desperate means of carrying out terror attacks: planting bombs in the copies of the Holy Qur’an. According to Colonel Steve Warren, a spokesman for the so-called US-led coalition against purported Daesh positions in Syria and Iraq, the militant group, which is “beginning to crack”, has booby-trapped areas it has lost. “These guys are disgusting, they have left bombs in refrigerators,… they...
Donald Trump is not Christian:Pope Francis...
( US )
Washington:Thrusting himself into the heated American presidential campaign, Pope Francis declared Thursday that Donald Trump is “not Christian” if he wants to address illegal immigration only by building a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump fired back ferociously, saying it was “disgraceful” for a religious leader to question a person’s faith. The rare back-and-forth between pontiff and presidential candidate was the latest astonishing development in an American...
Daesh follows no religion: Iranian Sunni Prayer leader...
( Iran )
Kermanshah:Prominent Iranian cleric denounced killing of Muslims as baseless saying that Daesh follows no religion and in fact it is a brainchild of some extremist Sunni Muftis and western intelligence systems. Mamusta Molla Ghader Ghaderi, Sunni prayer leader of Paveh in Kermanshah Province, attended the conference on “Dialogue for Life” called the present era as the era of invasion against spirituality of Islam and Qur’an and noted,” Dispersion of Muslims led to the present attacks on Islam...
US strikes kill 38 civilians in Syria’s Hasaka: Report...
( Syria )
Damascus:Nearly 40 civilians, including children, have been killed in northeastern Syria in a series of airstrikes carried out by the US-led coalition “fighting” Daesh terrorists. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that US air assaults have claimed 38 lives in Syria’s Hasakah Province since Tuesday. According to the report, 15 of the victims lost their lives when the air raids targeted a bakery in the city of al-Shadadi in Hasakah near the Iraqi border. The...